But Buckley’s faux speech quickly careens off the well-beaten presidential track — into Trumpian bombast, and a few foot-in-mouth musings about the Capitol’s mall.

“This is a great day for me personally,” the parody Trump tells his public.

“You’re very smart to have voted for me because I’m going to do positive things for this country, starting with this mall I’m looking out over.

“For starters, I don’t know why this is called a mall.”

“Where I come from, New York City — which happens to be the greatest city in the world, and the reason I say that is that I built most of it, and I only build quality, so I think I know what I’m talking about — a mall doesn’t look like this.

“Where are the shops? I see grass, ponds, an obelisk. This is not Cairo.”

The 1999 version of a newly sworn President Trump goes on in the parody to complain that George Washington wasn’t a good businessman: “You’ve got a 560-foot-tall structure sitting on some of the most prime real estate in the country, incredible views, including of my new home. People would pay a lot for a duplex co-op in a building like that.”

He adds, “Everywhere I look I see wasted opportunities, and I’ve only been president for five minutes.”

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“Trump” then promises, “I have no problems with people trading with us, but it’s going to be fair trade, by which I mean we come out on top. Or they can sell their TVs and cheeses to someone else. Maybe North Korea could use them.”

He then rushes off for a “lavish luncheon in the Rotunda.”

“I understand they’re serving a lot of shrimp, much better food than they’ve had in Congress for a long time.”

In an interview Friday morning with NPR, Buckley, the son of lauded conservative William F. Buckley, joked of the speech that “It took 17 years to come true.”

“It seemed funny at the time, but here we are,” said Buckley, who was a speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush.

“It’s morning in America, as we say. And ‘morning’ is a word that can be spelled two ways,” Buckley quipped.